Kadash Departing Rabat - Passing the Kasbah of the Udayas I’ve just posted a YouTube video paul weston author sailing - YouTube about...

Cover of 'Diamond Rock' When I wrote my first book, ‘Weymouth Bound’ many years ago, I imagined the main character, Jack Stone, as...

Free at Last! - Mitch on the Etang de Thau From July 2020 to June 2021, during the second Covid lockdown, Mitch lay alongside the bank...

Mitch at a Lock on the Canal du Midi We visited Mitch briefly in January 2020, as an aside from a skiing holiday in the Pyrenees, but any...

Gunner William Rivers' Commonplace Books I recently had the opportunity of examining the ‘commonplace’ books of William Rivers in the...

Pinney's Beach, Nevis Inspiration - you just can’t avoid it – that is if you are a writer of historical naval fiction and you are sailing...

Roadside Bar, Dominica We found that Deshaies in the north of Guadeloupe was an unsatisfactory place, crowded, with a northerly swell...

I have nearly finished writing my new novel “Diamond Rock”.  Without giving too much away, the book is set largely in the Caribbean, in...

Martin and George in Great Sound BVI The British Virgin Islands is a group of islands in the extreme north of the Lesser Antilles.  The...

Vegetable Supermarket, St Lucia On 2nd January we had a horrid trip from Tobago Cays to Bequia, dead to windward, motoring.  With her...

Tobago Cays On 29th December 2024, Kim left Prickly Bay, Grenada bound for Tortola, about 500 miles to the north north west.  Kim could...

Kim Lifted by Grenada Marine's Travelift I was reminded of this line from Henry Newbold’s poem “The Old Superb” when Grenada Marine’s...

Moon Rising Over St Kitts It was early morning* in the Anse Colombier, on the north coast of the small island of St Barthelemy, and...

Entrance to Rabat/Sale - The Kasbah of the Udyas Do the locations inspire the story, or does the story give meaning to the locations?  I...

Options at Port St Louis du Rhone In 2023, when we were working on Kim  at Port Napoleon, we rented an apartment in Port St Louis du...

Kim's Keel It seems to me that if you’re going to have ballast, it may as well be in the right place, and the lifting keel of our...

Crew Member Ed and the "Angry Ensign" in a Squall Kim stayed at Puerto Calero marina in Lanzarote while we returned to England.  On the...

"Kango" Type Hammer with Special Bit This is an account of the precautions we took to avoid interactions as we left the Mediterranean...

Kim  rounded Cape Spartel, the north westerly point of Africa on the morning of 31st July, and sailed out into the broad blue waters of...

We’ve had an interesting summer cruise in Kadash  aka “ Kim ”, our 40' aluminium sailboat.  As usual, there was work to be done when we...